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A Summer's Tale

Original title: Conte d'été
  • 19961996
  • GG
  • 1h 53m
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A Summer's Tale (1996)
Gaspard, a recent university graduate, arrives at the seaside in Bretagne for three weeks' vacation before starting a new job. He's hoping his sort-of girlfriend, the fickle Léna, will join him there; but as the days pass, he welcomes the interest of Margot, a student of ethnology working as a waitress for the summer. Things start to get complicated when the spoken-for Margot encourages Gaspard to have a summer romance with her friend, Solène, and he complies. When Léna turns up, and scheduling complications abound, Gaspard will have to make a choice...
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A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in tow... Read allA shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet youn... Read allA shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.
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    • Director
      • Éric Rohmer
    • Writer
      • Éric Rohmer
    • Stars
      • Melvil Poupaud
      • Amanda Langlet
      • Gwenaëlle Simon
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    • Director
      • Éric Rohmer
    • Writer
      • Éric Rohmer
    • Stars
      • Melvil Poupaud
      • Amanda Langlet
      • Gwenaëlle Simon
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 38User reviews
    • 55Critic reviews
    • 91Metascore
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Amanda Langlet and Melvil Poupaud in A Summer's Tale (1996)
    Melvil Poupaud and Gwenaëlle Simon in A Summer's Tale (1996)
    Aurelia Nolin and Melvil Poupaud in A Summer's Tale (1996)
    Amanda Langlet and Melvil Poupaud in A Summer's Tale (1996)
    Yves Guérin, Melvil Poupaud, and Gwenaëlle Simon in A Summer's Tale (1996)
    Melvil Poupaud and Gwenaëlle Simon in A Summer's Tale (1996)
    Amanda Langlet and Melvil Poupaud in A Summer's Tale (1996)
    Amanda Langlet and Melvil Poupaud in A Summer's Tale (1996)
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    Melvil Poupaud
    Melvil Poupaud
    • Gaspard
    Amanda Langlet
    Amanda Langlet
    • Margot
    Gwenaëlle Simon
    • Solène
    Aurelia Nolin
    • Léna
    Aimé Lefèvre
    • Le terre-neuvas
    Alain Guellaff
    • L'oncle Alan
    Evelyne Lahana
    • La tante Maiwen
    Yves Guérin
    • L'accordéoniste
    Franck Cabot-David
    • Le cousin
    • (as Franck Cabot)
    • Director
      • Éric Rohmer
    • Writer
      • Éric Rohmer
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      This is, perhaps, the film in which Rohmer - notoriously silent about his private life - came closest to autobiography, filling the story with discrete traces and allusions to his own past. "Of all the films I've made, I think this is the most personal vehicle. Everything that is in this film is true. They are either things that I experienced in my youth or things that I noticed. [...] I have carried with me the story of this film, which was in part inspired by events that occurred during my adolescence, for a long time."
      • Antoine de Baecque & Noël Herpe, "Éric Rohmer: A Biography" (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), p. 458.
    • Quotes

      Solene: Friendship's serious. Maybe more than love.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Movie Show: Episode dated 16 April 1997 (1997)
    • Soundtracks
      Fille de corsaire
      Performed by Sebastien Erms

    User reviews38

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    A fortnight by the sea in charming company.
    Gaspard, played by Melvil Poupaud, is a song writer, a good-looking but

    dull young man, a gauche loner with a flat voice and an inexpressive

    face who comes to this delightful holiday island of Dinard off the

    Brittany coast to await the arrival of his `sort-of' girl friend, who

    demonstrates how much she loves him by keeping him waiting for two

    weeks. During those two weeks, however, he finds two other girl friends

    • or rather they find him. It must be his good-looks, it can't be


    anything else. First he is picked up in a restaurant by Margot, a

    waitress, who turns out not to be a waitress but an Ethnologist, just

    helping out her aunt who owns the restaurant. Obviously such a bright

    and intelligent girl could not be merely working-class!

    Amanda Langlet, who plays Margot and who appeared ten years earlier in

    Rohmer's `Pauline at the Beach.' is clearly the star of this film. Much

    of the enjoyment of the film is derived from being in the company of

    this vivacious girl and being allowed to eavesdrop on her talk with

    Gaspard about love and relationships as they roam in the bright sunlight

    around this lovely French sea-side resort and the countryside beyond.

    She is such a very warm and sympathetic listener that it is difficult to

    understand why he doesn't fall in love with her. Why she doesn't fall in

    love with him is easier to understand. (you ask yourself; is this man a

    very good actor or a very bad one?) He makes a couple of inept attempts

    to move the relationship forward but is repulsed; she wants only

    friendship - and you feel he is lucky to get that - while she awaits the

    return of her Anthropologist boy-friend who is away in South America.

    Gaspard's dullness is made obvious when she takes him to hear an old

    sailor sing sea-shanties; her face so eager and enrapt as she listens

    intently; his face, alongside, so lifeless.

    She encourages him to take up with Solene, played by Gwenaelle Simon in

    her first film, a friend of her's who they meet at a dance, but when he

    does, she is jealous, jealous of their friendship she says but secretly

    hurt that he now thinks of her as only a friend.

    His relationship with Solene seems idyllic at first, they seem

    marvelously happy and well suited to each other. He is accepted warmly

    into her family, they all go sailing together and have a merry

    sing-a-long to one of his songs. But then, sadly, her true nature shows;

    she becomes aggressive and demanding, insisting that he take her to the

    island of Quessant or their relationship is at an end. And now Lena, his

    `sort-of' girl friend, played by Aurelia Nolin, appears and insists that

    he take her instead. He must now choose.

    Rohmer's films are never plot-dependent; he prefers to dwell on the

    characters, to bring us into a close, intimate relation with them, while

    they reveal themselves in talk. And when the characters are as

    attractive as Margot
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    • Jan 29, 2001

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    • Release date
      • June 20, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Yaz Öyküsü
    • Filming locations
      • Rue de la Malouine, Dinard, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
    • Production companies
      • Canal+
      • La Sept Cinéma
      • Les Films du Losange
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $198,126
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $12,863
      • Jun 22, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $198,706
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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